Published jointly with the American Heart Association, ACC’s ASCVD Risk Estimator is broadly used and respected as a facilitator for physician-patient discussion about risk reduction through lifestyle change. The popular tool has been downloaded more than 250,000 times and is used more than 7,000 times per day by individual providers, but in its current form requires manual transfer of data between records. The goal of the ACC is to make this tool available to every physician dealing with cardiovascular risk. By offering the risk estimator through Apervita, ACC will now make it available from within electronic health records (EHRs) and other systems that physicians use everyday.
“The ACC has been working to give health care providers access to guideline-based tools when they need them at the point of care,” said ACC Chief Information Officer Dino Damalas. “Connecting the ACC’s ASCVD Risk Estimator with electronic medical records on this platform will make this decision-support tool more broadly available to busy physicians and other members of the care team around the world.”
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